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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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Note on This Edition

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Note on This Edition

p. 351

Note on This Edition

Prepared for Diotimos Editions in 2026. The editorial structure takes guidance from the supplied Charmides edition and the earlier Stobaeus and Ficino Platonic Theology editions: an original introduction, paired source and translation, explanatory footnotes, an outline, and a glossary.

The transcription, translation, and explanatory matter were prepared with AI assistance from the digitized witness. Difficult readings were enlarged and revisited, and selected passages received an additional reading. This is a single-witness edition. The comparable Amsterdam and Paris manuscripts establish a context for the title; a systematic collation of their variants has not been undertaken.

The source photographs remain available for checking the text. A future edition can refine qualified readings and compare the surviving witnesses while preserving the stable references used here.

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About This Reading Edition

The first manuscript in the Manly Palmer Hall collection at the Getty Research Institute: the Book of Hieroglyphic Figures, presented in French and English with 463 explanatory notes, 13 manuscript plates, 25 source details, an introduction, chapter outline, glossary, bibliography, and register of readings.

Historical Text and Translation

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures (Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques), attributed in the witness to Abraham the Jew. Getty Research Institute, Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, accession 950053, Box 1, Hogart manuscript 3; French witness catalogued circa 1800. Manly Palmer Hall is the collector, not the author.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

The circa 1800 source manuscript is public domain. The supplied 2026 French reading transcription, English translation, introduction, notes, outline, glossary, register, and editorial arrangement are published with the site owner’s authorization. Source photographs are credited to the Getty Research Institute and Internet Archive in the supplied edition.